A Teenager’s Personal Experience at a Teen Treatment Center

Larry was a teenager who was in his 10th grade and was known to be quite good at his academics. It was obviously a big shock for people to find out that he was being taken to a teen treatment center for drug addiction treatment.  He was seen begging people for money saying that he had no money on him and he had lost his way in the busy street.  Larry would create a sad story saying that his wallet has been stolen and he has no money to go home. Some of them would give him money sympathetically, and he would use them to buy him some drugs. One day, he was found by his uncle tottered unsteadily trying to cross a busy street, under the influence of drugs.  His parents were informed and he was taken to a teen rehab center.

 Larry stayed alone with his grand-mother, his parents used to live in a different country. Since Larry had all the freedom do to what he wanted, he misused it by taking it to drugs. He had gone partying once and some of the people there asked him to try out a few drugs.  He loved it and soon became addicted to heroin. Larry had a drug peddler who promised him drugs if he would help him in selling them. So the boy neglected his medicine and started subtly selling drugs to some people around the night club. If he felt that he was short on cash, he would ask people on streets to give money by concocting some story.

 Larry was taken to a teen rehab center where he was treated with the best detox procedure; he was counseled well against drug addiction and soon it dawned on to him that he was actually destroying his education and his health in the process. Larry’s parents, who had flown all the way to make sure that the entire treatment process goes well, cooperated with the doctor. Soon in a matter of two months, Larry was fine, having benefited a lot from individual and group therapy.  He said that he would cooperate with the law and give all the information about places he knew where drugs proliferated. He also gave the name and address of the person who sold him drugs and asked him to supply it to other people at night clubs. Both the police, the authorities and even the rehab were deeply perturbed by this, the extent to which teen drug addiction was being spreading in the country was condemnable. 

 Nevertheless, Larry found a huge difference in his health after being treated in a teen rehabilitation center.  He is now an active college campaigner against teen drug abuse. He gives his example to teens and tells them to avoid taking drugs and alcohol at any cost.  He said that if it were not for his uncle and the teen rehab program that changed his life, he wouldn’t have been able to survive.  Just one person can make so much difference; it is high time teens gave up on drugs and start being high on positive things in life; after all, today’s teens are the future of this nation.